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CHENNAI: The 26-hour countdown for the launch of Indian Space Research Organisation's communication satellite GSAT-7A onboard Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle GSLV-F11 from Sriharikota, ISRO said. The satellite to be launched by ISRO on December 19 is designed with a lifespan of eight years. The satellite will be launched at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

NEW DELHI: WhatsApp Chief has written to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), seeking a formal nod to expand payments services to all its 200 million users in India. The development comes at a time when competitors such as Google have forged ahead with their payments offerings.
The letter, dated November 5, mentions that

NEW DELHI: After months of wait, India's heaviest satellite GSAT-11 that would boost broadband services in the country, has been successfully launched from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana at 2.07 a.m. IST on Wednesday. The Ariane-5 vehicle injected GSAT-11 into the orbit in a flawless flight lasting about 33 minutes the

NEW DELHI: India's first locomotive-less less train, known as Train 18 on Sunday breached the 180 kmph speed limit a senior railway official said here. We expect Train 18 to commence its commercial run from January 2019. Normally the trials take three months. But now it is happening faster than expected," S. Mani, General Manager

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched country's first hyperspectral imaging satellite for advanced Earth observation and 30 other satellites, including 23 from the United States, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Thursday.
HysiS, the Indian satellite, is the best-ever high-resolution Earth imaging satellite to be launched in space by

New Delhi: NASA is planning to launch a challenge for the public and scientific community to design a self-assembling robot with artificial intelligence that can explore the surface of the Moon, William Harris, CEO of Space Center Houston said Tuesday. Space Center Houston in the US, the official visitor center for

Massachusetts: Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an autonomous system for a fleet of drones that can collaboratively search for lost hikers under dense forest canopies, without the help of GPS. The system allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain by using only on board computation and wireless

Although Apple continues to dominate the smartwatch market, its share in the global shipments of smartwatches went down to 30 percent in the third quarter of 2018, from 35 percent in the same quarter last year, according to a new report.
Global smartwatch shipments grew 53 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of

Bad news for non-paying Flickr users: the formerly Yahoo-owned photo sharing site will be reducing its free cloud storage limit from a whopping 1TB to just 1,000 pictures, with plans to start deleting excess images early next year.
Announced by Andrew Stadlen, VP of Product at Flickr, users on the site's Free tier

Mumbai: Reliance Jio is holding its own festive sale on its website. The Reliance Jio festive sale starts at 12PM on November 5 and will continue till November 12. During the online sale, Reliance Jio is offering a discount on its latest smart feature phone, Jio Phone 2.
Reliance Jio Phone 2